“At thirty-five, JMA’s life cycle has coincided with the collapse of the music industry and its subsequent resurrection as a Wild West free-for-all. The key to success has necessarily been reinvention and as someone who had a hand in shaping Lady Gaga, McClusky knows a thing or seven about that.”

“By industry-wide consensus, the middleman with the widest reach is Jeff McClusky, a 46-year-old Chicagoan. Jeff McClusky & Associates, a 36-person operation based in Bucktown, with satellite offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles, is widely regarded as the industry’s most powerful independent promotion company.”